Challenging Colonial Discourse: Jewish Studies And by Christian Wiese

At the foundation of postcolonial idea, this research exhibits how Jewish students, within the controversies in regards to the "essence" of Judaism and Christianity first and foremost of the 20 th century, challenged the highbrow hegemony of Liberal Protestantism in Germany. by means of conscientiously studying the effect of the political situations - the lack of relevance of political liberalism, the spreading of antisemitism, and the quandary of Jewish id in an age of contested emancipation and assimilation - at the theological discourse, it presents a serious research of anti-Jewish implications of Protestant theology within the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and discusses the functionality of Jewish polemics opposed to Protestant distortions of Jewish background, faith and tradition. in addition, it develops vital directions for a latest interdisciplinary dating among Jewish stories and Christian theology.

This ebook delves into Israeli society the place inner divides have emerged from divergent price structures in a context of strong globalization, immigrant–society habit, and a pointy majority–minority department. a quick yet demanding event, Jewish nationalism attracts its energy from reformulations of ancestral symbols which permeate the dynamics of the confrontations of the dominant tradition and various events, all contesting its exigencies.

Regardless of a lot research of Viennese tradition and Judaism among 1890 and 1914, little examine has been performed to check the function of Jewish girls during this milieu. Rescuing a misplaced legacy, Jewish ladies in Fin de Si? cle Vienna explores the myriad ways that Jewish ladies contributed to the improvement of Viennese tradition and took part broadly in politics and cultural spheres.

A urban of significant literary mystique, Prague has encouraged writers around the centuries with its good looks, cosmopolitanism, and tragic historical past. Envisioning the traditional urban in relevant Europe as a multilayered textual content, or palimpsest, that has been always revised and rewritten—from the medieval and Renaissance chroniclers who legitimized the city’s foundational origins to the modernists of the early 20th century who verified its attractiveness because the new capital of the avant-garde—Alfred Thomas argues that Prague has develop into a paradoxical web site of inscription and effacement, of reminiscence and forgetting, a utopian hyperlink to the prewar and pre-Holocaust eu previous and a dystopia of totalitarian amnesia.

Severe presentation of the complete proof bearing on Jewish historical past, associations, and literature from one hundred seventy five BC to advert one hundred thirty five; with up-to-date bibliographies.

Accordingly, there is no claim to oﬀer a complete picture of which theological works Jewish scholars read during the course of their training and practice, and to which inﬂuences they were thus exposed. The phenomenon of the attraction of Protestantism’s theological and ethical concepts for contemporary Jewish thinking is considered wherever it can be clearly proven. The focus is on the controversial subjects in the discussion between Jewish and Protestant scholars, which were expressed in public controversies and mutual references.

See also K. Meier in: J. C. Kaiser/M. ), 1988, 241–269. The most recent work devoted especially to the German Kaiserreich is Wolfgang Heinrichs’ comprehensive and diﬀerentiated book, Das Judenbild im Protestantismus des Deutschen Kaiserreichs. Ein Beitrag zur Mentalitätsgeschichte des deutschen Bürgertums in der Krise der Moderne, which provides a contribution to the history of the German middle class mentality in an epoch shaped by political and cultural crises. An important aspect is that Heinrichs succeeds in demonstrating the heterogeneity of Protestant traditions of piety and its impact on Protestant attitudes toward Judaism, by analyzing the diﬀerent regional or social milieus and the diverse Protestant journals, associations, and theological trends.